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Festival Secrets: The Big One

Want to know a BIG deadCENTER secret?

The All-Access Pass doesn’t allow access to one of the best, most important facets of the festival: being a volunteer. We’re not talking about your old-high-school version of volunteering. At the festival, a bit of your time and energy immediately gets you in the middle of all things deadCENTER.

If you like to be outdoors and among people, Concessions is a fun place to be. These people are some of the most popular at the festival, as they serve alcohol and soda. You have to be 21 to work the booth, though.

If you’re under 21 or maybe food and drink is just not your thing, the Box Office is where it’s at. You get to handle tickets, t-shirts and passes, and pass the famous deadCENTER passion on!

eXperience deadCENTER hardcore. Call the office at 405.246.9233 or shoot an email to info@deadcenterfilm.org and we’ll hook you up.

deadCENTER to Celebrate Diversity with ‘World Fest’

Free Outdoor Event to Feature Award-Winning Musical Comedy, Filmmaker Awards

OKLAHOMA CITY – deadCENTER Film Festival today announced that the award-winning Australian musical comedy Bran Nue Dae will be the featured film for a free outdoor event on Saturday, June 12 in downtown Oklahoma City.

The public is invited to celebrate cultural and creative diversity at “World Fest,” an annual closing night event held on The Lawn at N. E.K. Gaylord Blvd. and N.W. 3rd St. The event begins at 7 p.m., and will host a wide variety of community groups, concessions, musicians and artists. At 9 p.m., filmmakers will be recognized for their talent and hard work at the deadCENTER awards ceremony. Attendees are encouraged to bring blankets and lawn chairs for the film which begins at 9:30 p.m.

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Pop Culture Junkie – Episode III: “deadCENTER 101: Comics by a Couple of Knuckleheads”

I’m a comic book nerd.

I’ve been one since I first peeled open the cover of an issue of Fantastic Four when I was five years old way back during the Ford administration. And this sadly misunderstood God Bless American art form has imprinted itself on me like a baby chick and has influenced the entirety of my career path (I’m a multi-hyphenate copywriter-graphic designer-broadcast producer-all around creative guy).

And I make no secret of my pushing-40 comic nerditude, a fact which led deadCENTER ladies Kim & Cacky to invite me to help create a comic book page to explain the elements of the film festival to the potentially unaware masses.

A “deadCENTER 101” if you will.

Since I’m the writer and have less of the burden of work to fulfill, I happily agreed, and brought in one of my creative collaborators, OKC artist Robert Wilson IV, to illustrate it.

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A Look Back With Dwight Edwards of The Filmcake: The 2003 Festival

In the Guest Spot today, we have Dwight Edwards, the man behind the very cool Okie-film website The Filmcake. Dwight has attended deadCENTER every year since 2002 (we’re willing to forget the two years he was absent, as he was there in spirit), and even contributed to our live blog of the festival in 2009. Every Wednesday until the festival, we’ll feature his look back at the deadCENTER film festivals of old, starting with 2002. This week: 2003

When deadCENTER moved from the lovely confines of UCO to downtown Oklahoma City, I somehow missed out in the transition. Now it seems almost inconceivable that I would miss two festivals in a row. I returned in 2005 and have attended every one since. But just because I missed out then, doesn’t mean I still can’t go back and revisit a couple of films from that 2003 festival. For this week, I watched two short films from that festival–Five F***ing Fables and Nice Night for Murder.

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This Is An Announcement: Screening of The Great Contemporary Art Bubble at City Arts Center this Wednesday

Be sure to make your way down to City Arts Center on Wednesday, March 31 for a screening of The Great Contemporary Art Bubble. A reception will begin at 5:30, with the movie following at 6:00 and a panel discussion beginning at 7:40. Tickets to the event are $10 – student price is $7.00. Tickets include wine, popcorn, the film and the panel discussion after the movie.

For more information, visit www.cityartscenter.org or call (405) 951-0000.

You there – the procrastinating filmmaker! Deadline for submissions is NEXT WEEK.

Oh wow. I know it’s not just us – March has officially snuck-up on everyone and is about to catch us with our time-wasting pants down. But here’s the deal. The deadline for submitting your film for this year’s deadCENTER film festival is March 3rd. Yeah, as in, NEXT WEEK, WEDNESDAY MARCH 3rd is our submission deadline.

So bust out the stiff envelopes, packing tape, or carrier pigeons and get your movie into our hot little hands. We want to see them. All of them.

Details for submitting are at the very top of our home page, and you’re already on our website. So you have no excuses. Get on it, people.

This Is An Announcement: Song of Sparrows Showing Today, 2pm at Kerr McGee Auditorium

“This is an announcement” is our new category when we have non-deadCENTER events in Oklahoma we want you to know about. So, yeah, pay attention when you see it. Follow the jump to get the details.

OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY FILM INSTITUTE
Presents eight international films in the theme of “This I Believe.”
Sundays, 2 PM, Kerr McGee Auditorium in the Meinders School of Business at NW 27th Street and McKinley – Free Admission

This Sunday February 21st:

Majid Majidi’s Song of Sparrows (2008), Iran, 96 min.
From Iran, the country once again most requested on evaluation forms last year, comes another film by Majidi. In fact, people wrote, “Anything by Majidi.” Working at an ostrich farm outside of Tehran, Karim leads a simple and contented life with his family in their small house until one day when one of the ostriches runs away. Thus begins another one of Majidi’s unforgettable parables. When Karim travels to the city to help his elder daughter’s hearing, he finds himself mistaken for a motorcycle taxi driver. He then begins his new profession: ferrying people and goods through heavy traffic. How will this change impact his life?

-“At times funny, sad, poignant and suspenseful, Sparrows is a showcase for Majidi’s masterful storytelling.” SF Chronicle
-“The images in The Song of Sparrows have a poetic grace that’s to be desired in storytelling.” Boston Globe
-“A fable of a righteous man’s relationship to his family, his community and most of all his faith..” NY Times

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